Parkside Church Westside Sermons

The key to heeding and receiving the wisdom of Proverbs is to stop looking within and to look out, look up and receive from outside of ourselves the wisdom and power of God. In one sense, the wisest thing you can do in life is to trust what God says...

Friendship, we desire it and feel displaced without it. Gregory of Nazianzus once said that, "If anyone were to ask me, 'What is the best thing in life?' I would answer, 'Friends.'" Friendships began within God and comes...

Everyone knows the jingle from our childhood days, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me." We know it, and by now we all know that it isn't true. Words do hurt. They hurt our hearts, they make us sad, they...

Jonah's story comes to a climax in chapter 4 and we discover the real reason he's been running all along. Jonah is fine when God is merciful to him, but he would rather be dead than share God's mercy with his enemies. God teaches an...

Sometimes, we may find ourselves in situations where the circumstances we perceive around us don't seem to match up with our beliefs about God's character. In Psalm 73, the psalm writer is confronted with just such a dilemma, and he finds...

Zechariah’s word of praise point us to the saving work of Jesus. However, his words of hope won’t move your heart, unless you see and believe that your heart, the inner person, that is the true and lasting you is broken by sin. Owning up to the...

We rightly associate Christmas with the birth of a baby boy, the Lord Jesus. However, it isn’t a stretch of the facts to commemorate the birth of two baby boys at Christmas, Jesus and his relative John. John the Baptists’ parents, Zechariah and...

We are all invited to dinner in Proverbs 9. The invitation isn’t to a fancy restaurant, but rather to two women’s homes; Lady Wisdom invites us into her grand palace, and on the other side of the street, Lady Folly stands at her front door and...

If we want to know how the world works, and how to smartly navigate life, then wisdom is the one for us to get to know. Who else could be a better advisor for us on how life on earth works, than the one through whom it was made? Wisdom calls us to...